Telegram Channel Admin Could Get Death Penalty For “Insulting the Prophet”
Weakened by his hunger strike, prisoner of conscience Hamidreza Amini was transferred to a hospital in hand and ankle cuffs but was returned ...
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Arab Rights Activist Hatam Morammezi Dead After One Year of Detention in Iran
Hatam Morammezi holding his nephew. Family Threatened to Stay ...
Nobel Laureate Anticipates Crackdown in Iran as Judiciary Bans Human Rights Lawyers From Security Cases
Iranian human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003. “Note to Article 48” Limits Detainees’ Counsel Choices to 20 State-Approved ...
Iranian Human Rights Attorneys Speak Out Against State-Approved List of 20 Lawyers For “National Security” Cases
Human rights lawyers in Iran are speaking out against a list released by the judiciary designating 20 state-approved lawyers to exclusively represent detainees held on politically motivated charges. ...
Oxford PhD Student Denied Legal Counsel 40 Days After Being Arrested in Iran
Father Claims IRGC’s Intelligence Organization is Cooking Up Case Against His Activist Son Reformist political ...
Iranian Cleric Under Seven-Year House Arrest Says Only Death Will Bring Him Freedom
Former Presidential Candidate Mehdi Karroubi Detained in His Home Without Trial Since 2011 An Iranian cleric and former presidential ...
10 Iranian HEPCO Workers Striking For Unpaid Wages Charged With “Disturbing Public Order”
Ten striking workers at Iran's Heavy Equipment Production Company (HEPCO) in the city of Arak, south ...
Iranian Education Ministry’s Job Requirements Prevent People With Disabilities From Applying
Iran’s Education Ministry is violating Iranian law and the country’s commitments to the ...
50 Years Later, Iranian Security Forces Are Still Trying to Silence the Iranian Writers Association
Police and security forces blocked an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the anti-censorship ...
Wave of Baha’i Arrests in Iran Raises Alarm at Faith’s UN Office
The Baha'i International Community (BIC) at the United Nations has expressed alarm over a ...
Two Confirmed Killed and 48 Injured in May 2018 Protests in Kazeroon
Bullets fired by police in the city of Kazeroon, Fars Province, killed two men—Ali Mohammadian ...
Sufi Bus Driver on Death Row in Iran Denies Killing Policemen in Audio File Released by Lawyer
Mohammad Salas’ Attorney Zeynab Taheri Summoned to Court to Face Charges The lawyer of Tehran-based death row prisoner ...
Eight Iranian Officials Call For Lifting Ban on Twitter Less Than a Month After State Blocks Telegram
Conservatives Increasingly Endorsing Twitter as Propaganda Front Six Iranian ministers and two members of Parliament (MPs) have sent a letter ...
Who Are the Dual and Foreign Nationals Imprisoned in Iran? (Updated)
At least 21 (15 dual nationals, five foreign nationals and one foreign permanent resident) were known to be held in Iran (imprisoned, under house arrest, or prohibited from leaving the country) as of July 2022 ...
Iran’s Telegram Users Back on the Rise Three Weeks After State Banned the App
Iranian Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi has revealed that ...
Local Police in South Iran Accused of Killing Two Protesters
Protests in Kazeroon Ongoing For Months Over Plan to Divide City At least two ...
Sufi Bus Driver Sentenced to Death in Iran Says He Confessed to Killing Policemen While Under Torture
A Sufi bus driver who was sentenced to death in Iran ...
Iranian Canadian’s Widow Maryam Mombeini Hospitalized Two Months After Being Banned From Leaving Iran
The wife of an Iranian Canadian academic who died in Iranian custody under suspicious circumstances in February 2018 was hospitalized for three days ...
Tehran International Book Fair Features Anti-Baha’i Literature by State-Funded Groups
State-funded publishers at Iran’s May 2018 Tehran International Book Fair (TIBF) were permitted to ...
Iran: Little Progress to Show UN on Disability Rights
Iran is facing a looming deadline to present its response to the Committee on ...
“You Know What Your Problem Is:” Young Man Expelled From Iranian University For His Baha’i Faith
A young man has been expelled from the University of Gilan in northern Iran because of his Baha’i faith in another ...
10 Things Everybody Should Know About Interacting With People Living With Disabilities
There's a new and growing conversation about disability rights in Iran. Here are 10 ways we can treat people with disabilities as equals and ...